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Israel health officials confirm 7 omicron COVID-19 cases, 27 others suspected

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JERUSALEM - Israel’s Health Ministry said Friday it has confirmed seven cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, stoking fears of a pending surge in infections.

Four of the confirmed cases are unvaccinated individuals who had recently returned from South Africa.The other three include two people who returned from South Africa and from Britain and who had received two doses and a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

The third person returned from Malawi and had been inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.Israel was one of the first countries to close its borders to all non-Israeli citizens following the discovery of the first case of the omicron variant last week.

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